Hyperliquid and Lighter data down to the single resting order, streamed live or replayed.
$49/moFree tierMCP
Crypto tools you cannot buy without a sales call
Every card here carries a tier with no number on it, and eight publish no number at all — and which end of the catalogue they sit at is not random.
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One missing number, and what it predicts
Every card on this page has at least one tier whose price is null — the catalogue's way of
recording that the tier exists and the vendor does not say what it costs. Nothing here is
inferred: a number we could not find is left absent, a number that does not exist is null, and
this list is built from the second.
Nearly half the cards are on it. The interesting part is not the proportion, it is where they sit.
The distribution is the finding
Three quarters of the market-data APIs and none of the backtesting libraries. That is the shape, and it holds down the whole catalogue:
- Market data APIs — 19 of 25.
- On-chain analytics — 12 of 19.
- Charting libraries — 3 of 7.
- Trading terminals — 6 of 15.
- Charting platforms — 4 of 12.
- Trading bots — 4 of 18.
- Backtesting libraries — 0 of 11.
Read it as a gradient rather than a list. The closer a product sits to data somebody else licensed to the vendor, the less likely you are to see a number; the closer it sits to software you install and run against your own keys, the more likely the price is printed on the page. An engine has one cost structure and one kind of buyer. A data business has an upstream licence per venue, a redistribution clause per customer and a sales team whose job is to find out what you can pay.
The eight that publish nothing at all
Most cards here have a self-serve ladder with one quoted tier on top of it — that is the ordinary case and it is not what this page is about. Eight publish no number anywhere:
Allium, ChartIQ, CoinDesk Data, CoinRoutes, Elwood, Kaiko, Talos and Wyden.
Two of those are worth reading together, because they show how far the pattern goes. Talos's pricing URL returns 404, its sitemap carries no page of prices, and its FAQ ends at a sales address; its knowledge base and API documentation are handed over at onboarding, and the public documentation host answers an anonymous request with a redirect into a login flow. Wyden lists its manuals in public and serves them from hosts that answer HTTP 401. In both cases you cannot scope the integration before you sign — so the implementation estimate in your business case is a guess, and the vendor knows more about your project than you do when the number is finally named.
CoinDesk Data is the one that got there recently rather than by design: its free tier was retired on 21 May 2026, and no price is published for anything a reader would actually buy. A product can move onto this page without changing anything except its terms.
How to use this list
As a filter, in one direction. If you are choosing this week, with a card, for yourself — skip everything here and read the rest of the catalogue. Nothing on this page is going to let you start today, and the ones with no published tier at all are a procurement cycle.
As a shortlist, in the other. If the purchase is going through a company's process anyway, the quoted end is where the products built for that process live — single-tenant deployments, ledgers, redistribution rights, support with a name on it. The absence of a price list is the least surprising thing about them, and the self-hosted shelf is where you go if you would rather own the deployment than negotiate for it.
Why the silence is concentrated where it is, what regulators have and have not done about it in adjacent markets, and the ten things worth asking before the first call, are in why this market won't quote you a price.
And ask the two questions that make the gap smaller. The documentation under NDA at evaluation rather than at onboarding, and the venue or chain list as a list rather than as a number. Both are refusable, and how a vendor refuses tells you most of what the price would have.
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Crypto Market Data APIs16
Spot, futures and options data — and one exchange's feed you can buy with a card.
$600/mo
Solana-first DEX prices, trades, holders and wallet PnL, metered in compute units.
$39/moFree tierMCP
Institutional reference rates, exchange market data and network metrics behind one API.
Free tier only
One symbol scheme over 400+ venues, metered in REST credits and WebSocket gigabytes.
$79/moMCP
Free keyless spot data down to the order-by-order book — with a redistribution ban.
Free
The old CryptoCompare API, renamed, re-hosted and no longer free.
—MCP
Prices, market data and onchain DEX data for 18,000+ coins, via REST, websocket or MCP.
$35/moFree tierMCP
Funding, open interest, liquidations and L2/L3 order books across thirty futures venues.
$35/moMCP
Prices, rankings, DEX and derivatives data, metered by rows returned rather than by call.
$35/moFree tierMCP
Aggregated prices and metadata for 11,000+ active coins, keyless on the free plan.
$99/moFree tierMCP
DEX pool, token and swap data on 36 chains over REST and SSE, keyless to start.
$30/moFree tierMCP
Tick history back to 2010, by REST, gRPC stream or cloud delivery.
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Options Greeks, a calibrated vol surface and funding data over REST, WebSocket or MCP.
$500/moMCP
Social-media volume, engagement, sentiment and creators per coin, over REST and MCP.
$90/moFree tierMCP
Crypto trades, bars and websockets, sold in one plan together with forex.
$49/moFree tierMCP
On-chain Analytics Platforms12
Institutional SQL over 85+ indexed chains, with labels and no published price.
—MCP
GraphQL over indexed chains — self-service plans are a real-time window, not history.
$49/moMCP
Exchange reserves, miner flows and MVRV for four chains, as charts, alerts and an API.
$39/moFree tierMCP
SQL and an API over 100+ indexed chains, metered in credits. Free access is view-only.
$75/moMCP
The explorer's own index over REST — one key across 33 EVM mainnets, licensed by plan.
$49/moFree tierMCP
Drag-and-drop charts or SQL over an indexed warehouse, free — with a slowing pulse.
Free tier only
Every Hyperliquid wallet's positions and PnL, sorted into size and profit cohorts.
$179/moFree tier
Bitcoin-only on-chain and cycle charts, free once a day, hourly with alerts and an API.
$35/moFree tier
KOL, alpha-wallet and deployer feeds for Solana and Robinhood Chain, pushed to a bot.
€43/moFree tierMCP
The GraphQL API under Sanbase, sold on its own plans with its own call budget.
$420/moFree tierMCP
The Solana explorer's own index over REST — decoded actions, labels and DeFi activity.
$49/moMCP
Solana wallets on 164 metrics, with profit counted only on trades a copier could take.
$125/moFree tier
Crypto Fundamentals & Research10
Chain and protocol fundamentals — fees, revenue, users — one definition everywhere.
$100/moFree tierMCP
Asset profiles, 500-source news and analyst-verified event monitoring, with an API.
$4500/yrFree tierMCP
Funding rounds, token unlocks, vesting and fund data as an API, plus coin prices.
$29/moFree tierMCP
DeFi's default metric set, with the TVL definition written down in public.
$49/moFree tierMCP
Token unlocks, vesting schedules, funding rounds and investors over REST, from 19 USD.
$19/mo
Ethereum L2 economics, CC BY licensed, on an API with no key — and chains pay for depth.
Free tier onlyOpen source
The registry of tokenized treasuries, stocks, credit and funds, with an API and MCP.
$500/moFree tierMCP
Free spot crypto ETF flow dashboard, with a keyed API that only looks back one month.
Free
Protocol fundamentals as an income statement — fees, revenue, earnings, multiples.
$350/moFree tierMCP
Token unlock calendars, vesting schedules and emissions, with an API from $99 a month.
$99/moFree tierMCP
Crypto Trading Terminals7
Institutional EMS with a dozen named algos, smart routing and a consolidated book.
—KYC
Modular institutional OEMS over 40+ venues, sold to professional clients only.
—KYC
Free crypto options terminal — vol lab, live greeks book and an automated delta hedger.
Free
Institutional crypto OEMS — aggregated liquidity, execution algos, one-click settlement.
—KYC
Execution algorithms and a market-making bot over your own CEX keys and perp-DEX wallets.
Free tier, then metered
Derivatives terminal with order entry on Bybit and Hyperliquid, and the API behind it.
$149/moFree tierMCP
Digital-asset OEMS for banks and brokers, renamed from AlgoTrader in 2022.
—KYC
Crypto Charting Platforms & Screeners6
Derivatives screener with order-flow footprint, volume profile and Hyperliquid whale data.
Free tier onlyMCP
The original DEX pair explorer, with premium tiers gated on holding its own token.
$19.90/moFree tier
Options screens, a vol surface and a strategy builder — free to look, 50 dollars to keep.
$50/moFree tier
FireCharts order-book heatmaps and binned CVD on 800 pairs, plus TradingView indicators.
$149.99/mo
Order-book heatmaps, footprints and Hyperliquid liquidation levels in a browser.
$35/moFree tier
The chart everyone else embeds, sold as a subscription — and crypto is one market on it.
$14.95/moFree tierMCP
Crypto Trading Bots4
Hosted DCA, grid and signal bots on nine exchanges, relaunched in 2026 with WunderTrading.
$20/moFree tierMCP
One order model over 26 exchange destinations, TWAP and VWAP, priced per account-hour.
$999/mo
If-this-then-that trading rules, now typed in plain English and parsed by an AI.
$19.99/moFree tierMCP
A Lua-scripted bot engine sold as a hosted cloud or as a server you run yourself.
$19.99/moMCP
Charting Libraries for Crypto Products3
Heavyweight broker charting SDK, domain-locked, priced by an account manager.
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The paid half of the open core — 100+ indicators, 40+ drawing tools, from $499 a month.
$499/mo
The chart engine inside half this market — free with visible attribution, not open source.
Free
FAQ
Why is "contact us" on this many products?
Because it works for the vendor, and for reasons that are mostly legitimate. A price that is not published can be set per customer against their size and their use, it cannot be quoted back by a competitor, and it does not have to account in public for the licence fees the vendor pays upstream to exchanges and index providers. None of that is hidden conduct — it is how enterprise software has always been sold. The cost lands on the buyer as time.
Does a quoted tier mean the product is expensive?
Not reliably. It means you cannot know before you ask. Some of these products have a published self-serve ladder underneath the quoted tier and are perfectly affordable at the bottom of it; others start at a number that will not fit a personal budget. The card says which of the two you are looking at, because a card with published tiers plus one "call us" at the top is a very different purchase from a card with nothing but a form.
How long does getting a price actually take?
Nothing here lets us measure that, and we say so rather than guess. What is measurable is what the vendor puts in front of you first — a demo request, a discovery call, a trial you cannot start without an account manager — and that is on each card. Read the ones with no published tier at all as a procurement cycle rather than an afternoon.
Is this list a criticism?
No, it is a filter. If you are choosing something this week with a card and a budget, this is the list to skip. If you are buying for a desk with a procurement process that is going to happen anyway, the quoted end is where the products built for that live, and the absence of a price list is the least surprising thing about them.